Roger Highfield
Museum exec, writer & visiting prof at @Dunn_School and @UCLChemistry. Ex New Scientist Editor & Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Neutron bouncer
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How bed cycles helped start the Paralympics
Tom Scott meets curator Selina Hurley to discover the story behind the Bed cycle and the Paralympic games. Find out more about the bed cycle in our collectio...
Roger Highfield
How bed cycles helped start the Paralympics
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Review | The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution at the Science Museum
London's blockbuster exhibition The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution opens at London's Science Museum to mark 100 years since the murder of the Romanovs.
Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition
Exclusive: Document shows that the astronomer toned down the claims that triggered science history’s most infamous battle — then lied about his edits.
Roger Highfield
Seven-page letter, written on 21 December 1613, provides strongest evidence yet that #Galileo engaged in damage control and tried to spread a toned-down version of his claims at the start of his battle with the religious authorities
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Denisovan hybrid cave yields four more hominin bones
The ancient human remains were found using a method that can scan thousands of bones relatively quickly.
Roger Highfield
Denisovan hybrid cave yields four more hominin bones - found using a method that can scan thousands of bones relatively quickly.
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Sep. 22, 2018. What's new
MINERVA-II1: Successful image capture, landing on Ryugu and hop!
Contaminated blood inquiry: the decades-long fight for justice
The first time I spoke to Mick Mason I wrote him off as a conspiracy theorist. I was a naive 21-year-old trainee reporter who by chance had picked up a call from him to the newsroom. The...
Chemistry in the Home
Hazardous chemicals and potential explosions were all once part of the joy of owning a home chemistry set. Associate Curator, Rupert Cole, explores the history of the ever-popular children's toy.
Celebrating Science Museum Lates’ 10th Birthday
Ahead of Science Museum Lates' 10th birthday celebrations, Cultural Events Manager Scott McKenzie-Cook looks back at some of the highlights from the past decade.
Romanov murder mystery: launch of The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution
Roger Highfield, Director of External Affairs, on the launch of new exhibition The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution.
Roger Highfield
We launched an extraordinary, and free, exhibition this week which I urge you to see #LastTsar: Blood and Revolution
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Discovery of vibrant deep-sea life prompts new worries over seabed mining
“Gummy squirrels,” single-celled organisms the size of softballs and strange worms thrive in a Pacific Ocean zone some considered an underwater desert.
Roger Highfield
Discovery of vibrant deep-sea life such as “Gummy squirrels,” single-celled organisms the size of softballs, prompts new worries over seabed mining
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An AI Analyzed My Twitter Feed and Discovered I’m a Shithead
DeepSense says it can analyze tweets to see if someone is a good employee. I'm going to need to make better tweets.
Researchers make major breakthrough in controlling the 3D structure of molecules
Scientists from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (GC/CUNY) have made a major breakthrough in chemical synthesis that now makes it possible to quickly and reliably modify the 3D structure of molecules used in drug discovery,...
Roger Highfield
Octopuses given mood drug 'ecstasy': "The brains of octopuses are more similar to those of snails than humans, but our studies add to evidence that they can exhibit some of the same behaviours that we can"
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A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony
How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience.
Roger Highfield
Scientists hope to illuminate neuroscience’s biggest puzzle: how the brain’s cells work together to transform electrical pulses into thoughts, actions and emotions
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Dancing with the Future
Dancing with the Future The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) of Harvard University, US, are collaborating on “Dancing with the Future”, a production that pushes the...
A new exhibition shows photos of the last Tsar found in a champagne crate
A treasure trove of photographs found in an old champagne crate has inspired the Science Museum’s new blockbuster exhibition. A curator stumbled upon the pictures, taken by an English tutor working for the family of Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II,...
How female scientists can confront gender bias in the workplace
Six researchers offer tips for navigating through and beyond gender barriers.